Product Information. You are squad leader of the Strike Force Centauri, a military organization created to protect against pirates, smugglers, and terrorists. Fight the resistance in 3D outdoor environments after outfitting your unit with suits of Powered Battle Armor.

At the end of each encounter, you'll be able to check on the statistics and health of your troops so you can prepare for the missions that follow. There are 39 missions in total, taking you across four battlefields with realistic terrain (including hills) and weather. Assemble your crack team from the confines of your personal quarters and review e-mail or video debriefings to keep you appraised of each hostile situation. In order to be successful, you'll have to use squad combat tactics and master your suit's arsenal of weapons, including particle beams, grenade launchers, missiles, thermal disruptors, recon drones, mines, and jump jets. Once you've completed all 39 missions, a scenario editor will let you and your squad continue battling long after the campaign is over!

Hello my friends, and welcome to my Classic Game Club entry for season 2! This time, I’m choosing a game from my second favorite game genre ever, mecha games. It’s fitting then, that my choice is my second favorite game within the genre (because my first, Heavy Gear 2, isn’t available digitally anywhere).

I welcome you, my friends, to the glory that is Looking Glass’ masterpiece,. First off, the game is available on and, and according to GOG, runs on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10, Mac OS X and Linux.

So unlike my last choice, this one should one on a wide range of machines.;) If you’re unaware, Terra Nova takes place in a far future where a faction of humanity has colonized Alpha Centauri to separate themselves from the evil totalitarian Hegemony back on Earth. Unfortunately, the Hegemony isn’t too keen on this, and comes in guns blazing to take the system.

Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri For Mac Pc

Playing as newly minted Powered Battle Armor (PBA) pilot, Nikola ap Io, you and your squadmates have to help prevent the system from falling into both chaos and the Hegemony’s hands. The game involves a linear campaign with missions that can consist of you alone, or squadmates, and you usually have full control over your squadmates via a variety of tactical tools. Your PBA can not only be outfitted with a variety of weapons, but also tools like recon drones or deployable turrets. Some missions will involve simple recon without being detected to all out assaults, and there are nearly 40 missions in the main campaign. Besides this, there’s also a random scenario generator as well. Now, this game came out in 1996, right on the cusp of 3D acceleration, and it is neither accelerated nor high-res (it ran in two resolutions, 320x200, and a “higher-res” 320x400). The controls are also VERY mid-90s in their weirdness, looking back on them, and sadly can’t be changed.

Thankfully the game includes training missions, so it shouldn’t take you too long to get the hang of things. You can use both mouse and keyboard to control your PBA and make tactical decisions. Your multifunction displays are clickable, and you can give orders to squadmates by clicking areas on the map, for example. This is an EXCEPTIONAL squad-based mecha game, really one of the best of its type. The missions are fun and varied, the amount of control you have over your PBA is really exceptional. If you’ve never played this before, be prepared for wonky controls, crude (yet detailed and lovely) graphics andlet’s just say not the best full motion video cutscenes and briefings.

If you can get past these things, you’ll find truly one of the most unique mecha combat games around. Even loves it.;) I encourage you to try this game not only to witness a slice of gaming history in the part of one of Looking Glass Studios most forgotten games, but also because it’s just a god damned fine game. Krayzkrok: I mean, it’s a great game, I just have to connect with it.

It is, and you do.;) So I just went through the two training missions and the first mission. Thank goodness DOSBox has native screen capture functionality (CTRL-F5)!;) After watching the intro and such, I find myself ready for the first mission. This first mission involves moving around until you feel comfy with the controls (which are WASD but also QEZXC): And shooting a couple of boxes! DIE BOXES DIE! The second training mission involved learning how to use the map, drone usage: Combat with a bunch of turrets that will fire back and hurt you, and learning how to use the deployable autoturret: Once that was done, it was onto our first mission, a solo affair taking down a small pirate outpost with only a few guards: As I approached the base, I saw a couple of pirates on the periphery. Once I got close enough, I went in, lasers blazing: Unfortunately, I forgot how toahemlook down.

So I was unable to accurately shoot at them until they tore me up pretty good. Thankfully they weren’t that tough, and after taking out three (THREE? The briefing said TWO dammit!), I laid waste to the small outpost as well, leaving only rubble in my wake. I also got Nikolai hurt, and I forget how that effects gameplay at all, but it might, so we’ll see on the next mission. The controls are indeed a bit weird, as several times I tried to use S to reverse, only to find that be the “walk” rather than “run” key. I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it, which is good because I believe the next mission involves controlling another squadmate.